Fiji

After serving as head coach of their national rugby sevens team for three years, Gareth Baber's return to Hong Kong this week, this time as coach of World Series champions Fiji, will be something of a homecoming.

The man who served as the Fiji Rugby Union's first professional chief executive, Pio Bosco Tikoisuva, agrees that more needs to be done to exploit the commercial potential of the sevens squad, but he has reservations about former coach Ben Ryan's idea of creating an independent franchise.

The fastest man in the Pacific, Banuve Tabakaucoro, is building his reputation in the local rugby sevens tournaments in Fiji, as he looks to expand his skill set and put his hat in the ring for national selection.

After another big turn out for the Marist 7s tournament in Suva, Lawrence Tikaram, the President of the Marist Rugby Club which organises the annual carnival, says it can become the template for a future World Series 7s event in Fiji.

The new coach of Fiji's national soccer team, Christophe Gamel, couldn't have wished for a tougher start, as his team prepares to take on New Zealand home and away in the latest round of Oceania World Cup qualifying, with the first match in Lautoka tomorrow.

Fiji's opposition SODELPA party has called for the resignation of the country's United Nations Ambassador in the wake of her comments that past laws protecting the rights of the country's indigenous people were institutionalised racism